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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrive in Valley Forge, Pa., July 3. The following day, President Ford will address the passengers in the 60 official wagons and approximately 2,000 other travelers. The Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission sponsored an official wagon from each state, plus ten escort wagons. Wagon trains originating in Elaine, Wash., Pomona, Calif., Houston, Fort Mandan, N. Dak., Atlanta and Augusta, Me., are bound for Valley Forge fueled by horse and mule power, as well as a resurgent pioneer fever. TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash caught up with a contingent of wagons at Tecumseh, Mich., and found spirits high. Her report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: EASTWARD HO! THE WAGONS | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

Simplot will not say how many of those defaulted contracts were his; he claims not to keep close track of numbers. But he and a fellow potato titan, P.J. Taggeras of Othello, Wash., are believed to own all of them. The Mercantile Exchange has already begun moving against the clearinghouses used by the spudmen. Exchange President Richard Levine said the houses would be liable for the cost of the potatoes and required to pay fines for not abiding by the default rules of the exchange. Presumably, the firms will try to get the money from their defaulting clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Great Potato Bust | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

Mercer Island, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 24, 1976 | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Flesh never does anything in a small way. When he gets sick, even his sclerosis is multiple. Characteristically, misfortune only intensifies his awareness of an America where executives carry attaché cases "like adult pencil boxes," where a trip through an automatic car wash seems like a sea storm by Joseph Conrad, where professors of English name their dogs Hemingway and stockbrokers name theirs Florida Power & Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet of Profit and Loss | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Colville, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 26, 1976 | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

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